Tag Archives: minimalism

May 26, 2009

Daniel Lefcourt at Sutton Lane

New show up by Daniel Lefcourt.  One sentence in the press release is a glory of artspeak: “Meaning is simultaneously constructed and evaded, deflected and defined.“  HA!  Anyway – good stuff in that mid-60s Minimal vein.  More at his website: http://www.certainlynot.com/daniel/main.php Sutton Lane: Exhibitions.

September 22, 2008

Sarah Braman and Joel Shapiro

Lord knows I’m not a Joel Shapiro fan.  I find his post-minimalist sculptures downright offensive.  His anthropomorphized geometries appropriate the “look” of minimalism without retaining any of a good minimal sculpture’s finest attributes: aloofness, mystery, and ambiguity.  Shapiro’s sculptures are too immediately accessible, too easily read.  And all within the visual framework of a movement [...]

September 11, 2008

Meet John McCracken

John McCracken will be talking and signing books at David Zwirner in New York at 11AM this Saturday, September 13.